Alesina, Alberto F.; Danninger, Stephan; Rostagno, Massimo - 2021
This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy and documents two sets of facts. The first … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy, with both the size of public employment and wage …